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An average day

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aaaa, how is it that the valley is cut in the wrong direction? Code section?
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Installation instructions. The valley shall be cut from the high side or largest expanse.
 
That's a common correction from me, and a common leak if I don't catch it. At some point I'm confident that all the roofers will finally get this figured out... :lol:
 
Here's another contractor that can't conceptualize. I should put that on the correction notice. I could tell them that Brent made me do it.

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The all-thread is supposed to be an HD anchor.

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I worked on a Marriott hotel in Sacramento. It is multistory wood. There are huge anchors near the elevators. They are 6' long and 1.5" in diameter with large steel plates and jamb nuts. Well they came up short by several inches so the contractor un-threaded them....right out of those big steel plates and jamb nuts.
 
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Now this guy understood the concept.....he just didn't know what to do about it.

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Yet again there is an illegal ecosystem. Although it is not within my purview, I wrote a correction to get the muck outta here. The owner called to complain. He said that it has been like that for years and the Health Dept. knows about it because they come by every few months and restock those mosquito eating fish.

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A flush beam has been installed. The plans call for a 4"x10" beam over the window. I really doubt that there is a 4"x10" over the window and the contractor didn't bother to find out.

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The permit is for a new cleanout. I knew there was more to the story so In asked for a camera run. They requested inspection twice more without a camera. Here we are on the fourth inspection and they didn't ream the fused joint of the liner that they installed.

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I was going to wait for the correction to be completed so that you could tell the difference....but I don't think that they will do the correction.
 
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I've never seen an inspector look at a sewer line (of course I've never seen an inspector who goes by the name "Tiger" either), at least around here that comes under the purview of the sewer district, doesn't your jurisdiction end 5' beyond the home? When we are building on spetic tanks, and there is no sewer district, then the inspection comes under the septic tank permit, under some county department, the last one was inspected by "The Department of Environmental Health".
 
ICE said:
Our jurisdiction stops at the property line.
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While that's true the jurisdiction of the building code you are enforcing stops 5' from the permitted structure. In your AHJ don't you have a different department that inspects septic tanks? Don't you have a sanitary district that inspects sewers?
 
We inspect sewer, storm, and water connections here. They're usually done at either our pre-footing inspection or our pre-backfill inspection, so it saves on having someone from utilities do it.

Our plumbing code extends to the property line, but we inspect based on requirements of the municipality (mostly just materials connected to the right place)
 
conarb said:
While that's true the jurisdiction of the building code you are enforcing stops 5' from the permitted structure. In your AHJ don't you have a different department that inspects septic tanks? Don't you have a sanitary district that inspects sewers?
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I didn't know about the five feet from the building.

We do inspect septic systems...but I have looked at only a few.

We do have a Sewer District but the building sewer is ours and it goes all the way to the property line.
 
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I don't know where I get the 5' from, it's what we've always done, extend the sewer out 5" and cap it, then do rough plumbing testing with a 10' head. After the inspector has signed off the rough we have the sewer contractor trench, remove the cap, and hook up the sewer in the middle of the street. The sewage district inspects everything and the plumbing inspector doesn't look back, they are the ones who run the TV cameras through the sewer, the AHJ doesn't own own TV cameras. Another thing, at the 5' point we used to install an aluminum domed vent, this could be taken off and either a camera or a snake could be inserted from there, I haven't seen those domed vents for years, were they a code requirement or a sewage district requirement?
 
ICE said:
Here's another contractor that can't conceptualize. I should put that on the correction notice. I could tell them that Brent made me do it.

The all-thread is supposed to be an HD anchor.



I worked on a Marriott hotel in Sacramento. It is multistory wood. There are huge anchors near the elevators. They are 6' long and 1.5" in diameter with large steel plates and jamb nuts. Well they came up short by several inches so the contractor un-threaded them....right out of those big steel plates and jamb nuts.
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Am I my looking at those wrong or other form boards put up as if he is going to pour the entire backyard as a slab since the taller side of the forms are towards the hole? I guess I'm missing what he's trying to do.
 
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Am I my looking at those wrong or other form boards put up as if he is going to pour the entire backyard as a slab since the taller side of the forms are towards the hole? I guess I'm missing what he's trying to do.
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Yes Ma'am, you are looking at it wrong. It will be a raised foundation.
 
It is difficult to believe that a licensed contractor did this.

There was a wall. It was a bearing wall supporting ceiling joists from two rooms.

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There is now a pair of 2"x8" sitting on top of the spot where there was a wall.



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The kickers are attached to the ceiling joist. The purlin brace might be all that holds up the 2"x8"s.

About half of a messed up furnace install is sitting on the joists.

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There's quite a bit of work here. It looks pretty good. It's too damned bad that it has to come out. You see, they didn't see the detail that shows the footing 24" into undisturbed soul. So they are 16' to 18" deep.

I have encountered this hundreds of times. Yes I said hundreds. It is because the detail is small and the writing is tiny and the info is nowhere else on the plans. Hell, sometimes I have to search for it. I have asked that there be a big warning on the foundation page. Apparently that would be too much trouble, but doing all of this work over is no big deal.
 
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